RE: Website link for 61.9.203.178

Thanks Bert for your response.

When I tested from hotmail I temporarily enabled relaying on my server
so that the email would come through. After the delisting trouble, I
de-enabled relaying again. I think the best answer is to just get
bigpond to change my reverse DNS.

Thanks again

James


-----Original Message-----
From: Bert Driehuis [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, 5 December 2006 1:45 AM
To: James A. O'Keeffe
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DSBL-Contact] Website link for 61.9.203.178

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On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, James A. O'Keeffe wrote:

> When I try to remove my IP from your system, it tells me it can't with
> the following message.
>
>
>
> Confirmation email refused. Please fix your server to accept removal
> request mail. DO NOT email us asking us to email to another address or
> to help you fix your server; we will not do either.
>
> Result:
>
> Message Report:
>
>    Sorry, I couldn't find a mail exchanger or IP address. (#5.4.4)
>
>
>
>
>
> I have tested receiving email from hotmail to
> [email protected] and it works OK. My
> domain does have an MX record.

I do not have access to the DSBL server so I can't see what the world 
looks like from that perspective, but on my own systems I cannot 
reproduce your success:

% host -tmx CPE-61-9-203-178.static.nsw.bigpond.net.au
CPE-61-9-203-178.static.nsw.bigpond.net.au mail is handled (pri=0) by
   mx-relay.nsw.bigpond.net.au
% host mx-relay.nsw.bigpond.net.au
Host not found.

It is possible that Bigpond's DNS servers return inconsistent data and 
that Yahoo stumbled upon a usable answer.

The problem with delisting Bigpond customers is rather old; you may wish

to contact your ISP to get this fixed once and for all.